Inside Berkshire Hathaway's shareholder shopping extravaganza

When you come to the Berkshire meeting, there are a few things you just have to do.
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We now understand why they call it "Woodstock for capitalists."

The Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting is an all-out festival.

Berkshire shareholders come in from around the world to see their CEO Warren Buffett speak for hours on Saturday morning.

While Buffett is speaking, there is a shopping event in the convention center adjoining the arena the meeting is held in. But for this year's 50th edition of the event, Berkshire held a second shopping day for the first time.

We went inside to see what the madness was all about. We saw everything from gold-plated vacuum cleaners to something called "cognitive cooking."